How fast could a scribe write a Voynich like text?

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I guess that this estimate is for a good scribe writing high quality text with neat uniform "font", ornate letters, etc. Not just a faithful copy.

While it's certainly not just 'scribbling,' this estimate is from the era when lay education was already a thing, necessitating more books being copied. The copying hand was a little more lax than ornate books, but reproducing text readably and with decent spacing still takes time even if it doesn't need to be perfect. A book reproducing extensive calligraphy and very elaborate letters, exhibiting neatness, would take much longer. There are reports of one such copying where the contracted scribe had to produce folios continuously for the client: the rate came out to about a page a day, so a year for a tome of Voynich size (well, 9+ months, but if it takes this long you will run into shorter days, the cold season, and illnesses interrupting your work, even in Italy, so a year is a more realistic estimate).

The Voynich is assuredly not of this quality. Going further, there is no line spacing, so one might infer it should be a 'quicker' copy, but the handwriting is not of 'shorthand' quality inasmuch as we can even guess at it, and the drawings need to be reproduced and text wrapped around them, so it can't be freely written in the way a quick copy would be. I would say a typical copy's time of production is a decent guess.